3D Graphics Cards and Video

Re: ATI Radeon HD 4850 and 4870: RV770 Has Arrived

3DtoHD — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:53:38 GMT

Great informative post!

Re: ATI Radeon HD 4850 and 4870: RV770 Has Arrived

Anonymous — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:15:34 GMT

Turn on 8X AA and watch the 4870 dethrone the 280. Also if rumors are true we will see 4870x2 in August. I keep hearing how ATI needs to do this and do that. Frankly if they can give the kind of performance that the 4870 delivers at that 299 price then I could careless about ultra high end 600 dollar video cards.

Re: ATI Radeon HD 4850 and 4870: RV770 Has Arrived

agawtrip — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:45:41 GMT

ATI Radeons high-end lineup

4850 = Pro

4870 = XT

4870 X2 = X2

4890 = XTX

4890 X2 = XTX X2

two cards are out, 3 more to go. if AMD/ATI is really serious in dethroning nVidia in high-ends/ultra high-ends, they should or they MUST release the remaining three.

Re: ATI Radeon HD 4850 and 4870: RV770 Has Arrived

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:28:20 GMT

you may need to run driver cleaner and install from scratch. You should see a big jump in performance unless of course your CPU bound.

Re: ATI Radeon HD 4850 and 4870: RV770 Has Arrived

mlovely — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:36:00 GMT

Ok.....im addicted to hardware, I am not asshamed to admit it..........

Good news: i got a second saphire 4870, overclocked it the same os my first and am running them in crossfire mode.

the bad news: i dont see a huge bump in performance....or evin a slight bump.....im assuming drivers are the issue, im running ccc 8.6 so tonight i will dl and try the leaked 8.7 beta drivers and see if it fixes crossfire.

Re: RE: ATI Radeon HD 4850 and 4870: RV770 Has Arrived

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:57:29 GMT

peti1212:

Looks like ATI is still not checking up with Nvidia. I head that the 4870 X2 is suppose to come out this month though and that is suppose to beat the single GTX 280. We'll see about that.

you get 80% of nvidias GTX 280 performance for half the price. That is really + 1 to ATI in my book. Then you can always crossfire the 4870 or wait til their high end x2 part comes out if you have to have the best of the best. Either way a crossfire setup with either 4850 or 4870 is faster than the 280. That is something I think that has suprised me and a lot of tech people. Ati came out of no where with exellent price/performance. You can get the best gaming graphics now without having to spend 600 dollars on a video card. I appreciate ATI's gutcheck to nvidias $699 gtx 280.

Re: RE: ATI Radeon HD 4850 and 4870: RV770 Has Arrived

peti1212 — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:05:04 GMT

Looks like ATI is still not checking up with Nvidia. I head that the 4870 X2 is suppose to come out this month though and that is suppose to beat the single GTX 280. We'll see about that.

Re: RE: ATI Radeon HD 4850 and 4870: RV770 Has Arrived

mlovely — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:43:22 GMT

Got mine in Yesterday......man it is wonderfull, i overclocked it right off the bat to max settings and it runs stable as a rock, (790 core clock, 1100 mem. clock) it runs a bit hot, the stock fan settings run at 23% and the card under load runs at 87-90c but i did a fan mod and have the fan running at 40% and temps drop down to mid 40's. i havent done any benches as i dont have any benching software :P but crysis runs at 25 fps average on all high settings with the overclock and upper teens without the overclock. if anyone has any questions about the card ill happily answer :)

mlovely

RE: ATI Radeon HD 4850 and 4870: RV770 Has Arrived

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:31:12 GMT

Just thought id let you know i put in my order for Radeon 4870 yesterday. Thanks for the review.

Re: ATI Radeon HD 4850 and 4870: RV770 Has Arrived

Endersothergame — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:34:51 GMT

Well this is nice to see. It good to see ATI humbling nVidia even a lil bit, I mean I won't be buying anything new as with the res I play at I am CPU bound before more often then my gfx card is showing signs of stress. However this is nice for lots of reasons it will drive the cost of my next upgrade down. Who knows I may go back ATI again. This 88GT has served me well, but something in me misses my old friend 'the radeon'.

Re: ATI Radeon HD 4850 and 4870: RV770 Has Arrived

jtm55 — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:28:14 GMT

Hi All

Well this certainly puts AMD/ATI back in the Graphics card race. Best of all we the consumer benefit by them offering a viable alternative to Nvidias products. Great review as always.

RE: ATI Radeon HD 4850 and 4870: RV770 Has Arrived

higgamo — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:32:17 GMT

well the 9800gtx+ gonna cost $199 i believe so seems like best deal

Re: ATI Radeon HD 4850 and 4870: RV770 Has Arrived

Crisis Causer — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:27:42 GMT

Wow, the GTX 260 is officially obselete for the time being. Not only does the 4870 cost less and perform the same, Nvidia's own 9800GTX+ performs almost as good and also costs less.

The GTX 280 is really for people who only want the best without thinking of cost. Otherwise it's wise to consider the 4870.

Re: RE: ATI Radeon HD 4850 and 4870: RV770 Has Arrived

recoveringknowitall — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:56:14 GMT

I doubt the 280 will be available for under 6 bills for at least a couple months and probably won't be under 5 till next year... just my oppinion.

Re: RE: ATI Radeon HD 4850 and 4870: RV770 Has Arrived

nelsoncp21 — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:22:22 GMT

well ya never know. nvidia may slash the prices on the gtx 280 now to stay in the game otherwise I don't see them selling.